How to use Highlightz

Get started in 4 steps

The free plan needs no card and does not expire — one channel watched, a queue of 20 clips, up to 5 highlight clips on top of that, and 30 clips a week you can keep. You can be monitoring a live channel before you finish reading this page.

Sign in with Twitch

Highlightz has no separate password. You sign in with the Twitch account the clips should belong to, because clips are created under that account through Twitch's official API.

1. Click Get started in the top-right of the homepage.
2. On the sign-in screen, click Continue with Twitch.
3. Twitch asks you to authorise Highlightz. Approve it.

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Read the welcome card

The first time the dashboard loads you get a short explainer of how the detector works. It is worth thirty seconds — it is the clearest summary of why clips fire when they do.

1. Skim the five numbered points.
2. Click Start clipping to dismiss it.

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Add a channel to monitor

Nothing happens until Highlightz has a channel to watch. It does not have to be your own — you can monitor any live Twitch channel that has not opted out.

1. Open the Live Streams tab.
2. Type a name into search a streamer. Suggestions appear as you type.
3. Pick a preset that matches the content — see the list below.
4. Click Monitor stream.

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Approve your first clip

Clips do not go anywhere until you say so. Every capture lands in Clip Review and waits for you.

1. Open the Clip Review tab.
2. Watch the clip in place.
3. Click Approve to keep it, or Reject to bin it.

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Live Streams

This is the control room: every channel you are watching, its live trigger score, and the chart of how that score has been moving. A channel scores against its own normal, so a quiet chess stream and a loud FPS stream fire at the same fairness.

1. Type a channel into search a streamer and pick it from the list.
2. Choose the preset that fits: Default, Small streamer, FPS, MOBA, Chess / Strategy, Casino / Gambling, IRL / Outdoor, Variety / Just Chatting or Sports.
3. Click Monitor stream. It appears under Monitored streams.
4. To stop watching a channel, remove it from that list.

Before you see anything move, the channel has to be live. An empty list reads No streams yet. Add one to start monitoring.

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Clip Review

Everything the detector catches lands here first. Nothing is published, deleted or posted anywhere until you decide — this queue is the only way a clip reaches your library.

1. Open Clip Review.
2. Filter with All, Pending or Approved.
3. Re-order with the Sort menu: Date added, Trigger score or Virality.
4. Click the button beside it to flip between High to low and Low to high.
5. With more than one channel, narrow it using the Streamer menu.
6. Click Approve or Reject on each clip.

An empty queue reads Waiting for clips — *Add a channel on the Live Streams tab, clips appear here the moment a highlight fires.*

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Highlight clips

Some clips arrive wearing a purple Highlight badge. Alongside the score, Highlightz has a second way of finding moments, and these are what it finds: usually the higher-quality clips, the ones most likely to travel. They are worth watching first.

1. Look for the purple Highlight badge in the corner of a clip.
2. Some of them carry a green label as well, reading Trending, Huge clip, Blowing up and so on. A green label means the clip stood out even more: those are the best clips you will get.
3. Watch it and Approve or Reject it like any other clip.

Every plan gets these, and they have their own allowance — see the plan table below. They carry no trigger score, rejecting one does not move the channel's threshold, and they never take a slot from a clip the detector caught on its own.

Clip Library

Everything you approved, newest approval first. This is the keep pile — clips you rejected never arrive here, and pending clips stay in review until you rule on them.

1. Open Clip Library.
2. Filter by channel if you are monitoring several.
3. Open any clip to watch it or copy its Twitch link.

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VOD ScannerPro

The detector normally works live. The VOD Scanner runs the same scoring over a broadcast that has already finished, so you can mine streams from before you signed up — or catch the ones you missed.

1. Open the VOD Scanner tab.
2. Paste a Twitch VOD URL, like https://www.twitch.tv/videos/123456789.
3. Pick a preset, same list as Live Streams.
4. Click Scan VOD and let it work — it shows progress as it goes.
5. Each moment it finds links straight to that timestamp.

The VOD Scanner is on Pro. On the free plan and on Starter the tab explains the upgrade rather than failing silently.

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Settings

Where you tune how eager the detector is. If it is catching too much or too little on a channel, this is the dial — not a setting you have to touch to get started.

1. Open the Settings tab.
2. Adjust the trigger sensitivity for a channel.
3. Review storage and workflow options.

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Account and plans

Your plan, your billing and your connected accounts. Every account starts on the free plan — 1 channel, a 20-clip queue, no card and no time limit. When one channel stops being enough, Starter watches 3 and Pro watches 10 and adds the VOD Scanner.

1. Open the Account tab to see Plan status and Membership.
2. Upgrade to Pro starts a Stripe checkout.
3. Manage billing opens the Stripe portal to change or cancel a plan.
4. Delete my account removes your data permanently.

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What each plan gives you

Common questions

The things that actually come up, and what they mean.